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SwingU is part of the Golf Genius family, the tournament management platform used by thousands of clubs, courses, and golf associations worldwide. Golfers can join a Golf Genius event, post scores from the SwingU scorecard, and follow live leaderboards without leaving the app.\n\nWHAT IS SWINGU PLUS\nSwingU Plus is our AI-powered digital caddie subscription. It adds:\n• AI Digital Caddie with \"Plays Like\" yardages using live wind speed and elevation\n• Club recommendations based on your club distances, shot tracking, and conditions\n• StrackaLine Green Maps for 20,000+ courses — precise slopes and break lines on laser-mapped greens\n• Hole Insights — your hole stats vs. all SwingU golfers for strategic decision making\n• Hole notes you can reference the next time you play\n• Enhanced scorecard — putts, driver accuracy, bunker play, penalties, and detailed round summaries\n• On-the-course games with handicap-adjusted scoring: Stroke Play, Skins, Stableford, Match Play, and Nassau\n\nWHAT IS SWINGU PRO\nSwingU Pro is our elite game-improvement subscription, and includes everything in Plus:\n• SwingU strokes gained — the world's easiest-to-use strokes gained platform, used by 50+ active tour players and 100+ college golfers\n• Performance comparison vs. your target handicap (from +6 to 30)\n• Relative handicap for every facet: driving, approach, short game, bunker play, and putting\n• Post-round #1 improvement priority, plus a prescriptive drill from a Top-100 teacher\n• SwingU TV — 600+ lessons and drills from Top-100 teachers, anytime\n\nWHY DO MILLIONS OF GOLFERS USE SWINGU\n• Reliable and easy to use — one tap and you're playing\n• Helping golfers improve since 2008\n• The only golfer community-verified course database in the world\n• Backed by Golf Genius, the technology behind competitive golf at thousands of clubs\n\n===\n\nOTHER INFO\nMonthly and yearly subscription upgrades are available. 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